- strip#
- strip vb Strip, divest, denude, bare, dismantle can mean to deprive a person or thing of what clothes, furnishes, or invests him or it.Strip stresses a pulling or tearing off rather than a laying bare, though the latter implication is frequent; it often connotes more or less violent action or complete deprivation{
strip the bark from a tree
}{he was quickly stripped of his clothes
}{where pasturing cattle stripped the ground
}{once start stripping poetry of what you imagine are inessentials and you will find ... the anatomy is made visible but the life will have gone— Day Lewis
}{I had stripped a few of my habits, seconal and benzedrine at any rate, but I was . . . tense and braindeadened— Mailer
}Divest, in contrast to strip, does not suggest violence; it usually implies a taking away of what a person or thing has been clothed or equipped with especially as a sign of power, rank, influence, or prestige{divesting capitalists of further increments of power— Cohen
}Therefore it often connotes an undoing or a dispossession or a degrading{divest an officer of all authority
}{naturalism divests life, whether physical or spiritual, of all that separates it from the inanimate and inorganic— Inge
}{the king is thus divested of his kingship and now becomes merely a corpse— Frazer
}Denude implies a stripping or divesting, but distinctively it implies a resulting bareness or nakedness{stripped of its vines and denuded of its shrubbery, the house would probably have been ugly enough— Cather
}{a ghostly lunar rainbow —the spectrum cleansed and denuded of all the garish colors of day— Beebe
}{modern agriculture . . . denudes the land of the protective cover and food that wild creatures need—G. S. Perry
}Bare, although it suggests a removal of what covers or clothes, seldom carries implications of violent or complete stripping; it is chiefly used in idiomatic phrases which imply more than the mere act; thus, to bare one's head is to take off one's hat usually as a sign of respect or reverence; to bare one's sword is to unsheathe it and to have it ready for action; to bare one's heart to another is to reveal feelings one has concealed; to bare the secrets of the grave is to disclose, often as a result of a discovery of documents, something which had been known only to persons now dead{no hidden secrets are bared in this biography— Lubell
}{bared her teeth at the audience with comic ferocity— Wouk
}Dismantle is used chiefly with reference to the act of stripping a house, a building, a ship, or a complex installation (as of machinery) of its entire equipment and furnishings{dismantle a factory
}{the cottage itself was built of old stones from the long dismantled Priory— Hardy
}{hurriedly dismantled a second bomb that he had brought along— Shirer
}Antonyms: furnish: investstrip n Strip, stripe, band, ribbon, fillet are comparable when they mean a relatively long and narrow piece or section. Strip and stripe both imply length and comparative narrowness and approximate uniformity of width.However strip commonly suggests separation from a larger piece{tear old linen into strips for bandages
}{cut a sheet of paper into strips
}and stripe stresses a contrast (as in color, texture, or pattern) between the section of a surface referred to and the sections bordering upon it{each white petal had a stripe of red
}{gray cloth with alternate stripes of blue and red
}{when one or more strips of braid have been sewn on a soldier's sleeve to indicate his rank or his length of service, they are called stripes
}If actual separation is not implied strip may be employed when the difference between the portion of surface referred to and its neighboring portions is a matter of use, ownership, or physical character{the strip between sidewalk and curb belongs to the city
}{each man on relief was allotted a strip of land for raising vegetables
}However stripe may be used in such cases in preference to strip when the division is made evident by a contrast in appearance{narrow stripes of ice separated from each other by parallel moraines— Tyndall
}{stripes of cultivated land in various shades of green
}Band (see also BOND 1) may mean either a strip or stripe but often also connotes either an encircling with or without a suggestion of confining or uniting or a horizontal position rather than the vertical position so often connoted by stripe{the lower parts of the sleeves and of the skirt were adorned with bands of blue silk
}{bands of colored light in the sky at dawn
}{at closer range, the mountain showed three bands, the lowest green, the middle gray, and the highest white
}Ribbon designates concretely a length of narrow woven material with selvage edges, usually one that is fine and firm in texture and is used for ornamental bands, ties, and bows. In extended use ribbon is often used in place of strip when the strips are very long, very narrow, and very thin and when the material is flexible enough to appear like ribbon or to be handled like ribbon{steel ribbon for use in springs
}{rib-bons of red, green, and gold paper for tying Christmas packages
}{the sails were torn by the hurricane into ribbons
}{the road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor— Noyes
}Fillet, which basically denotes a narrow strip of ornamental material (as a band of ribbon for restraining the hair or a narrow molding or beading that forms the inner part of a picture frame), is often extended to various things that have no inherent ornamental quality and are otherwise describable as strips, ribbons, or bands (as a metal strip or ribbon from which coins are punched, a very thin molding, one of certain bands of white matter in the brain, or a long narrow piece of meat or fish without bone).
New Dictionary of Synonyms. 2014.
